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THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN
Written by William Cowper. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314423
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Small, square format. (5.5 x 4.5"). Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Slight discolouration to rear cover. Browning and foxing to prelims and last few pages. Contents clean. Also comes with a letter from the publishers confirming that only 4 titles of these small size Caldecott books were printed.

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MY ALPHABET BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1314421
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations for each letter of the alphabet throughout (2 per letter per page). "K is for Keys, K is for Kingfisher" Covers a little bit grubby. Slight wear to spine and corners. Finger creases and light marks to page edges but generally clean.

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MCDOUGALL'S ALEXANDRA READERS - THE PRIMARY READER
No author listed. Illustrated by Michael Brown; et al..
Stock no. 1314418
Published by McDougall's Educational Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Red cloth with black titles. 128 pages. Colour illustrations and b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Rear cover is lightly marked. Endpapers lightly browned. Grubby fingermarks to page margins otherwise contents clean.

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NURSERY RHYMES PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Norman T. Stephenson.
Stock no. 1314416
Published by Sandle Brothers Ltd.. Very good condition.

Black cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations throughout. Covers edge rubbed, corners very slightly worn. Contents pulled at top staple but still firmly attached. Some light foxing.

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THE BABY'S OPERA
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1314407
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1877. Very good condition.

Brown cloth spine, brown pictorial boards. Black endpapers. Colour illustrations and text decorations printed by Edmund Evans. Spine bumped. Corners worn with slight loss to lower front corner. Foxing to contents which are otherwise clean.

Price: £90.00 £67.50.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314401
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1919. Very good condition.

Contains the Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack built; An Elegy on the Death Of A Mad Dog and The Babes In The Wood. Large, square format. Cream pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Sepia line drawings. Spine slightly bumped. Cream cloth is ever so slightly grubby. There is a tiny nick to top edge of rear cover. Rear free-endpaper is creased. Front joint is just starting to crack. There is some very light fingering to page margins. This is a nice, attractive copy.

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MONTMORENCY AND THE ASSASSINS
Written by Eleanor Updale.
Stock no. 2116502
Published by Scholastic Press. 1st 2005. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Third adventure in the series. ISBN: 0439963753. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing.

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MONTMORENCY'S REVENGE
Written by Eleanor Updale.
Stock no. 2116501
Published by Scholastic Press. 1st 2006. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The fourth Montmorency adventure. ISBN: 9780439950657. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small marks.

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CONDEMNED AS A NIHILIST
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Walter Paget.
Stock no. 2116470
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1900. Very good condition.

A story of escape from Siberia. Green pictorial cloth. Gilt titles. 8 b/w plates plus a map of Russia. 352 pages plus 32 page booklist to rear. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little chipping/fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown.

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MODERN BOY No. 40 NOVEMBER 19TH 1938
Written by W.E. Johns; Murray Roberts; et al.
Stock no. 1403765
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1938. Almost very good condition.

Weekly magazine, paperwraps. Contains an installment of Biggles' Rescue Flight. Staples a little rusty. Spine torn at top and bottom. Contents detached from covers. Writing in pencil to top of front cover. Some marks to covers. Pages browned.

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PRINTED KATE GREENAWAY A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Written by Thomas E. Schuster; Rodney K. Engen. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1403761
Published by T.E. Schuster. 1st 1986. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A fully comprehensive reference book listing over 600 major items with hundreds of variants within each heading. Covering published books, greetings cards, periodicals, ephemera and spinoffs. Green cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951175203. SIGNED with dedication to front endpaper. Light grubby mark to text block edge. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn with light fading at folds.

Price: £62.00 £46.50.

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FREEGLADER
Written by Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell.
Stock no. 1713404
Published by Doubleday. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Book 7 of the Edge Chronicles series. Undertown is destroyed. Gnokgoblins, cloddertrogs, woodtrolls and others who live there prepare for a mass exodus to a new home in the Free Glades. Purple boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0385604629.

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